Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-08-01

Fathers and mott .ers, be careful about the
companlonship of your children. Better
iollow your title girl, with the sunshine
tangied IN er curls, to her maiden grave
tnaI 10 nave her intrest her happiness to
the keep az of q drs7nkard or loafer.
"a hother safeguard that we need to
thro" around our home and social life is
fHE OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH.
II IS our shame and infamy that California
Is the only State in the Union which has
40 Sabbath law to protect the laborer in
his right to day of rest, and the Chris
tan in his sacred right 10 worship God I'M
disturbed by Sunday riot and revelry, and
the result is that Sunday is the day, es-
pecially in our cities, when hell is let
loose. appeal tonight to men and wo-
men who were reared in Sabbath-keeping
homes and around family affairs in New
England and the West and beyond the sea
to stand up for the Christian Sab
bath, for if this transplanting of
the continental Sabbath to our shores
goes on with our Christian Sabbath,
will go down our churches, our Sabbath
schools, our homes and all that is dear to
a Christian heart. What is the Sabbath on
the continent of Europe to-day-the Sab
bath which the foreigners who rule US
through our corrupt politicians are trying
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MALTA OF vice and violence, of drunkenness
and dissoluteness, and if we haven't grit
and grace to stand by our American Sab
bath, we will have the Partisan Sabbath,
with Partisan morals in Sacramento. The
Sunday baseball infamy is doing all it can
to debauch our youth, drive the Christian
people who are here out of this CITY and
prevent others settling here. l know OF
family after family who in their quest of
homes have turned away from Sacramento
because of the fact we have almost as many
saloons as legitimate business houses, and
because of our reputation as
MISUNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY.
A prominent real estate man, net men,
Der of the church, told me of several such
instances, and stranger travelling through
who made inquiries of Eastern people and
others as to Sacramento, was told in every
instance that the city was mostly given up
to saloons, and that the Sabbath was shame
fully desecrated.
In southern California they have no more
Sunday law than we have. but they have a
wholesome public opinion that frowns
down such outrages on the moral sense OF
a large part of the community as some OF
the business men of this city see fit to
foster and sustain. In many of the East
ern cities Sunday baseball is prohibited
and in none is it carried to such lengths as
here. The National Baseball League
allows no Sunday playing by the clubs
composing it. Sacramento will never have
the desirable population to which her I'M
surpassed natural advantages entitle her
until she puts off her mining camp man.
ners and lays aside the frontier rowdyism
, inherited from the old days. speak as to
wise men. Judge We what l say, am
, become your enemy, because l tell the
truth believe that our unsavory reputa-
ton as to morals, deserved or undeserved
, has done more to retard our city's pros
perity than our excellent Improvement
Committee has done to advance il, and in
that opinion l am sustained by many OF
our best business men.